Trust The Scientism EP18 : Monologue
Imagine you've been trying to stop a tank from rolling downhill. A tank rolling downhill towards a group of school children who are blissfully unaware that they are in the path of something that will devastate them.
You've been pushing but you don't have a chance of stopping it. You've cried out for friends and family for help. Some of them came to your aid, but still not enough to stop this tank from rolling further down the hill.
You've cried out for strangers for help and many of them did. You are amazed at how everyone within the sound of your voice was able to jump in and help. The weight is a lot lighter in your hands but still beyond what you all can control. Still beyond your collective strength.
Then, someone pointed out a little man standing at the top of the hill. He's wearing a lab coat and has a sickening smile on his face. A reporter who has been helping to stop the tank recognized the man in the lab coat...as the driver of the tank. You all cry out for the little man to get help but he stands still and smiles because he's getting his picture taken.
As it turns out the little lab coat man is there for a publicity stunt. The media are fawning over him and asking him for his blessings. They are treating him like he was a little deity. All while ignoring that his vehicle that he rode to the top of the hill, to celebrate his recent gains in the stock market, was rolling downhill towards the easiest thing I could think of to symbolize the innocent in our world.
Now, as you look around you, at the people helping to push the tank, you see the look on their faces change. When the people who have been fighting and risking their lives to save the innocent see that the little man isn't going to help, they get angry. In that anger they cry out for help from their friends and family and even strangers. Now the tank is starting to slow down.
As a larger crowd gathers to push the tank someone tells the reporter that the lab coat man said that he meant to do this. As word got around the crowd the tank comes to a stop. Then it starts moving back up the hill. Back up to where that little bastard stands...still grinning and posing like some sort of satanic royalty.
Now that you have some control over the tank, now that you know who may be responsible for what happened, what are you going to do about it?
Do you stop at the top of the hill and alert the fawning press? They seem in on the plan. In fact many have been watching the entire time and rather ignoring it or smiling in the same disgusting way that the lab coat man is.
Or how about you gather some of the crowd and surround him? Demand that he be arrested? There hasn't been many of the people involved in the justice system helping to stop the tank. What if they just let him walk away?
How do you ensure that justice will be served to those responsible for endangering, for victimizing, and for murdering the innocent, once you find out who they are, if you can't trust in the justice system to do what is right?
Do you just rely on mob justice? You wouldn't want to be tried and convicted in that way. That way is biased and unethical. It's blinded by anger and hatred. It settles scores but does it know the truth?
You will encounter many challenges in your life that require you to think deeper. If you are to condemn the man in the lab coat for endangering the innocent you need to first understand if it really was on purpose. Intent matters. How do you prove intent?
Through investigation. Through exposure of the truth. Anything that can document who, what , where, when, and why the act occurred. You need not re-invent that wheel. The best way to convict and then condemn anyone is to uncover the truth. In this scenario, the crowd pushing owes a great debt to the reporter, as do the innocent at the bottom of the hill. Without the knowledge he provided the outcome would have been completely different.
Now what if the crowd got wind of people trying to silence the reporter? What if the crowd watched the media at the top of the hill joining in on the silencing? Do you investigate and expose them as well?
You're damn right you do. Because you want to know that the truth lead to the right kind of justice. Because that is the correct way to protect the innocent. The reporter from the crowd knows that. Now imagine if you had an army of them?